Facing the human water security dilemma - an ecohydrological perspective
Seminar with Malin Falkenmark, celebrating four decades of ecohydrological bridge building.
Increasing attention is being paid to water-related resilience and to water security, its links to planetary constraints, and the different types of limits to human activities that they indicate: achievable level of food production that a country can sustain; potential carbon sequestration for reducing atmospheric CO2; sustainable raw water supply to growing megacities; sustainable life cycles of industries and their products. Some constraints may be blue or green water related. Other limitations are linked to protection of ecosystem functions, environmental flow or quality of water. The event is organized by Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) at Stockholm University (SU) and Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) to celebrate four decades of ecohydrological bridge building by Professor Malin Falkenmark, on the occasion of her 85th birthday.Programme
09.00- 11.00 Session 1:
Advances in hydrological understanding and changes in paradigms
Introduction
Johan Rockström, Professor, SRC & SEI;
Carl Folke, Professor, SRC & the Beijer Institute
Conceptual ecohydrological bridge building — forty years in retrospective
Malin Falkenmark, Professor, SIWI & SRC
What happens to the moisture we evaporate? And thus the green water return as rainfall elsewhere?
Huub Savenije, Professor, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
Complex history of societies and water quality as illustrated by heavy metals
Michel Meybeck, Professor, Center for Climate Systems Research, CNRS, France
Water resources challenges in the small and in the large - navigating in a jungle of paradigms
Olli Varis, Professor, Water and Development, Aalto University, Finland
Communicating underlying fundamentals and the challenge of managing ignorance
Tony Allan, Professor, King's College London and SOAS London
Panel discussion
Moderator Johan Kuylenstierna, Adjunct Professor, SEI and SU
11.10-11.40 Coffee
11.40-13.00 Session 2:
Adaptations in governance, policy and practice
Bread and water: adapting to warming, water-stressed world
Sandra Postel, Founder of the Global Water Policy Project, USA
Falkenmark's water crowding index and its implication in the Limpopo River Basin
Tony Turton, DPhil, South Africa
Water for food, water for life — the green water perspective
David Molden, Director General, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal (TBC)
Panel discussion
Moderator Johan Kuylenstierna, Adjunct Professor, SEI and SU
Conclusions
Johan Rockström, Professor, SRC & SEI;
Carl Folke, Professor, SRC & the Beijer Institute
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Friday 21 October 2011, 09.00 - 13.00Linné Hall, Beijer Hall, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
Lilla Frescativägen 4, Stockholm Download seminar programme (pdf, 220 kB)
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